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Voyage of the Northern Light : newspaper reports and articles.
No full textCover title.; For private circulation only.; Contains typescript copy of a letter from the author to the Daily telegraph.; Library's N copy is inscribed "To the Editor Bulletin, Joshua Slocum ... Strictly private". ANL; Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2009
Affine Springer Fibers and Generalized Haiman Ideals
No full textWe compute the Borel-Moore homology of unramified affine Springer fibers for under the assumption that they are equivariantly formal and relate them to certain ideals discussed by Haiman. For , we give an explicit description of these ideals, compute their Hilbert series, generators and relations, and compare them to generalized Catalan numbers. We also compare the homology to the Khovanov-Rozansky homology of the associated link, and prove a version of a conjecture of Oblomkov, Rasmussen, and Shende in this case.33 pages, with an appendix by Eugene Gorsky and Joshua P. Turne
Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
Indigeous author talk
No full textA unique online author event celebrating the diversity of literature created by and for Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer people. This event features writers and creators T’áncháy Redvers and Joshua Whitehead in conversation with host Taya Jardine.Other UBCNon UBCUnreviewedOthe
Hebrew made easy [electronic resource] : or, a brief introduction to the Hebrew grammar, (upon a new and delightful plan); Whereby our British Gentlemen and Ladies may, in so very short a Time as Twenty-Four Days, learn the most necessary and essential Variations of that incomparable Language, without the Help of the Latin, or the Assistance of a Master. The second edition, with additions. By the author of The great importance of the Hebrew language.
No full textThe author of "The great importance of the Hebrew language" = Joshua Kettilby.Kettilby's 'Hebrew made easy' was first published in [1760?] (c.f.t123545). 'The excellency and great importance of the Hebrew language ... by Joshua Kettilby, author of Hebrew made easy' was published in 1762 (c.f.t183663)Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford)
Reply to Joshua Meltzer
No full textA reply to Joshua Meltzer\u27s comment on the author\u27s paper Bridging Fragmentation and Unity: International Law as a Universe of Inter-Connected Island
Biophysical Review’s ‘meet the editors series’—a profile of Joshua W. K. Ho
No full textIt is my pleasure to write a few words to introduce myself to the readers of Biophysical Reviews as part of the ‘meet the editors’ series. [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] A portrait of Dr. Joshua Ho. © 2020, International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.link_to_OA_fulltex
A Pleasant conceited Comedie : Wherein is shewed how a man may chuse a good Wife from a bad. /
No full textLabel pasted on front end-paper reads: ... How a man may choose a good wife from a bad. Date of the earliest known edition, c. 1602 Reproduced in facsimile [Tudor facsimile texts] 1912.A ms. note on t.-p. ascribes the play to Joshua Cooke. "Joshua" may or may not be a mistaken reading of Jo. (i. e. John) Cooke. cf. Pref., Tudor facsimile texts.Mode of access: Internet
Developing elite Neurospora crassa strains for cellulosic ethanol production using fungal breeding
No full textThe demand for renewable and sustainable energy has generated considerable interest in the conversion of cellulosic biomass into liquid fuels such as ethanol using a filamentous fungus. While attempts have been made to study cellulose metabolism through the use of knockout mutants, there have been no systematic effort to characterize natural variation for cellulose metabolism in ecotypes adapted to different habitats. Here, we characterized natural variation in saccharification of cellulose and fermentation in 73 ecotypes and 89 laboratory strains of the model fungus Neurospora crassa. We observed significant variation in both traits among natural and laboratory generated populations, with some elite strains performing better than the reference strain. In the F1 population N345, 15% of the population outperformed both parents with the top performing strain having 10% improvement in ethanol production. These results suggest that natural alleles can be exploited through fungal breeding for developing elite industrial strains for bioethanol production.Peer reviewe
Doppler-free Spectroscopy, an Opportunity for State Specific Investigations in Large Molecules
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